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Still having issues with wi fi in the house so during a conversation with Sky's tech line he mentioned that they had an offer on fibre that would only cost £1.01 per month for 18 months.
Let's have it says I.
'Ah' says he 'It's not available for your street but it shouldn't be long.'

Open Reach, who he says do the cabling which is then available to any supplier, say it's not available and don't have it scheduled.
Yet when I put my postcode into an availability checker there are offers listed.

Can someone straighten me out on this. I've no problems changing from Sky if that is the route I have to go.

Incidental point.
Thought I'd sort t'other half's connection problems by running an Ethernet cable to her office. Didn't occur to me for one minute that her Lappy wouldn't have an Ethernet port.
I gather a USB 3.0 to Ethernet connector sorts the problem but is this common now that Laptops don't have Ethernet ports?

One more additional question if I have a Sky dot com email address can I keep that if with another supplier? I know Sky use Yahoo but it seems a bit odd that I could be getting my service from say EE or BT but still have a Sky email address.








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A lot of commercial checkers are unreliable. Try the Openreach one instead. This should give you a much better idea of what's going on with your cabinet: (scroll down about half way to enter your phone number)

https://www.homeandbusiness.openreach.co.uk/fibre-broadband/superfast-broadband/superfast-fibre-at-home

Also, you can enter your landline number here:

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

This will give you more technical information, including the likely speeds you will get once the fibre cabinet is installed and activated (as well as provisional activation date)

As for your Sky email address, it should still work if you switch suppliers.

No idea about the USB ethernet thing. I would assume an adapter should work fine.

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I have a Macbook, it doesn't have an ethernet port, but a cheap USB one off Amazon worked just fine. I suspect they are very standard things these days.

I paid about £7, though the one I got is now £12, welcome to Brexit!


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Gareth Williams says...
" Try the Openreach one instead."
Yep tried that one.
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We're working with government and industry to explore ways to bring Superfast fibre to as many people as possible but don't have a plan for your area yet.So on offer at £1.01 per month is much the same as the punchline to the old joke.

'Yes our Tomatoes are 5p per pound when we haven't got any'

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Fibre installations are brilliant, everyone should get it eventually.

We got ours a year ago where our village got a few fibreoptic cabinets doted around the area, ours is about 100 yards away, but the final run to the house is just by telephone wire.

We went from at best 7.8 in, and 0.75 out
to best at  17.3 in, and 2.53 out.

Considering the average broadband speed in Africa is 7 in, and 0.5 out, we went from darkest Africa to the modern world, Yeh 

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bandicoot says...
"Fibre installations are brilliant, everyone should get it eventually."
We will never get it. We are miles from the exchange at the very end of the line. It is uneconomical the number of houses spread out along our long lane and a couple of miles from nearest village and civilization.

Our "broadband" went down to 0.3mbps recently, although they've now been able to jump it up to around 1.5mb.

I think eventually - if it's ever cheap enough - we'll just rely on 5g.

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Alfie noakes says....Our "broadband" went down to 0.3mbps recently, although they've now been able to jump it up to around 1.5mb.

Thats drastic, not being near an exchange, it then comes down to installation costs verses how many people will be served from it. Looks like you need a local wi-fi network. saw a documentary this year where a village clubbed to together for a communal wi-fi system. (sorry, cannot remember date or channel)

Not sure of the technology either, but it was to do with getting a good signal to one location near the village and then re-broadcasting to each house over the air via a wi-fi transmitter. Each houseowner paid a percentage of the installation and a monthly bill for wi-fi.

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bandicoot says...
"Looks like you need a local wi-fi network"
This was an option that we looked at. Unfortunately you need line-of-sight between all the rooftop 'wifi routers' and they said too many trees - not possible.

Next option: internet delivered by donkey in baskets.

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alfie noakes says...
"Next option: internet delivered by donkey in baskets."
Or a chainsaw? :)


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Rob Shepherd says...
"Or a chainsaw? :)"
I would do this: once cut down a large tree because it was messing up Sky signal.

I suspect in this case it could well be trees spread out over several miles distance...